Assistant director charged with sex with student

Assistant director charged with sex with student

August 30th, 2014by Associated Press in Local - Breaking News

KINGSPORT, Tenn. - A one-time assistant band director at an eastern Tennessee school faces more than a dozen counts of statutory rape by an authority figure after officials say he had a sexual relationship with a student.

The Johnson City Press reported that a Sullivan County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Ethan J. Tate of Johnson City last week and police arrested him Thursday.

Kingsport police say Tate, then working at Sullivan South High School in Kingsport, began a sexual relationship with a student when she was 16-years-old. Between September of 2013 and February of 2014, Tate allegedly had at least 13 sexual encounters with the girl.